Hubby and the Manhole Cover

Let me see it was about eight months ago this bespoke manhole cover was broken, or shall we say smashed into smithereens courtesy of clumsy better four fifths. He was chopping logs and didn't realise that this was happening. He did when it broke and everything disappeared down the hole. It was going to be replaced 'directly' as they say in Cumbria (what you don't realise until you have lived in Cumbria for a few years is that this means nothing) Also what I didn't realise is that 'replacing it' meant using various half cocked ideas, such as the picture depicts. Well for various reasons hubby was in a tizz yesterday and being a little tetchy drove straight at the arboreal sculpture and rotten planks underneath it resulting in 25% of cars wheels down a manhole. Now I wouldn't mind so much but my daughter who has not been driving for the length of time he has and has nothing like his experience (mainly incidents caused by himself) gets it in the neck over and over again because e a small scratch has appeared. This always happens , big song and dance about a dirty streak or microscopic scratch. I reckon its a cloaking technique.